Word: gifting
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Rozema has a gift for striking scenes which communicate more through images than words. The first love scene between Petra and Camille cuts between love-making and a graceful trapeze duet; Martin's phone call home is recorded on an answering machine next to Camille's empty bed. While Camille is in bed with Martin, the dancing lights that are the focus of Petra's circus act begin to swirl around the screen. The effect is extremely powerful; we immediately understand Camille's dilemma, and the fact that she desires both Martin and Petra suddenly seems human rather than contrived...
Finally, the film ends as it began, with a monologue from Bobby during which he suddenly recognizes his father's gift to D, as a generous and non-judging act. Erasing his former anger towards George for encouraging D.'s drinking. Bobby realizes how beautifully accepting his father can be. Tearfully concluding that this must be the miracle he hoped for, he restores his faith in God and in the success of his movie...
...checks and unpaid vendors. Most people blamed the confusion on Joe. For a man reputed to have a fortune tucked away back East, he was weirdly inept with money. During the campaign it emerged that he had written $60,000 in bad checks to a Salt Lake City luxury-gift store. A mix-up, said Joe. His account in Pennsylvania hadn't been transferred to Utah in time. "There were always explanations,'' says Peter Valcarce, manager of Enid's unsuccessful 1992 campaign and a consultant in 1994, who was paid with bad checks three times. "He said he wanted...
...launch television commercials for the first time in its 83-year history this Christmas to help promote its 800 number. Rival catalog giant Lands' End plans to resist the industry price-cutting trend by holding its prices level with those of last year and offering extras such as free gift boxes and monograms. Says Lands' End president Michael Smith: "If you're selling computers or electronics, you're doing very well this year. The price cutting on everything else is earlier and more aggressive than I've seen it in years...
Gramm is often compared to the late John Connally, another brash Texan with a gift for gab. Yet that comparison ill serves Connally's reputation. Connally was the lousiest of candidates (his $12 million run for the 1980 G.O.P. nod netted him only one delegate) but nobody ever described him as too small for the presidency, which is exactly how many who know Gramm speak...